Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Unless I'm mistaken, the patch provides only half of the solution: the stringToLong part, but not longToString. I agree this feature is interesting, not for optimization but becomes it avoids using clunky ways (long -> hex -> bin) to implement something simple. However, perhaps making it part of either the binascii or the struct module would allow more formatting choices (e.g. big-endian or little-endian, fixed-length or not). For example in cryptography you would want a byte string of a fixed size even if your 512-bit number happens to have its 8 most significant bits set to zero.
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